For anyone with what used to be called “progressive tendencies,” the best, if largely overlooked, book of last year was surely John Bew’s biography of Clement Attlee, the leader of the British Labour ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clement Attlee, the Labour Party's longest serving leader and prime minister from 1945–1951, belongs in the top tier of Britain's ...

Clement Attlee was one of the most successful leaders in modern Britain yet was habitually shy, laconic and self-deprecating. He believed in basic honesty and accountability. When asked whether he ...

Like many another middle-class British family back in the ’30s, Mr. & Mrs. Clement Attlee liked to spend their weekends getting away from it all in the family car. When Clem’s duties permitted, a trim ...

On 3rd August 1945 at 10.45am, newly victorious Labour MPs assembled in Westminster to take their oath of allegiance. Clement Attlee, the new prime minister whose party had just won by a landslide, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sir Lindsay Hoyle is a lover of cats and other animals (UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA) (PA Media) Preparations are under way ...

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As Tony Blair today overtakes Clement Attlee as leader of the longest uninterrupted Labour government, the two leaders' six-year records are being compared. On the face of it, that seems absurd. How ...

Paul Willer, who lives in Gloucestershire, was sponsored by the Labour party leader Clement Attlee, the Labour prime minister whose government founded the welfare state, looked after a child refugee ...

Clement Attlee, the Labour Party’s longest serving leader and prime minister from 1945–1951, belongs in the top tier of Britain’s post-war leaders. Surveys for Britain’s best prime minister usually ...